TODAY IN HISTORY – July 18th
1941 - Born this day, Martha Reeves, in Detroit, Michigan, soul singer, 1964 US No.2 and 1969 UK No.4 single with The Vandellas Dancing In The Street, plus six other UK top singles.
1950 - Born this day, Glenn Hughes, singer, The Village People, 1978 US No.2 and 1979 UK No.1 single Y.M.C.A.. Died 4 March 2001. (He was the Biker).Hughes died on 4th March 2001.
1950 - Born this day, Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Records and the Virgin Empire and Virgin trains.
1953 - Truck driver Elvis Presley made his first ever recording when he paid $4 at the Memphis recording service singing two songs, My Happiness and That's When Your Heartaches Begin. (The songs were supposedly for his mother's birthday (which actually was in April) at Sun Records in Memphis (he is noticed by a secretary there and it eventually leads to a contract.)
1962 - Born this day, Jack Irons, rock musician, drums, Pearl Jam, 1992 UK No.15 single Jeremy, 1993 US No.1 album Vs..
1964 - The Four Seasons started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Rag Doll', the group's fourth No.1 and a No.2 hit on the UK chart. Co-writer Bob Gaudio said that he got the inspiration for the song from a young girl in tattered clothes that cleaned his car windows at a stop light.
1966 - Bobby Fuller leader of The Bobby Fuller Four was found dead in his car in Los Angeles aged 22. Fuller died mysteriously from gasoline asphyxiation, while parked outside his apartment. Police labelled it a suicide, but the possibility of foul play has always been mentioned. Had the 1966 US No.9 single 'I Fought The Law' written by Sonny Curtis of Buddy Holly's Crickets and covered by The Clash.
1970 - Radio 1 DJ Kenny Everett was sacked after he joked on air that the wife of the conservative transport minister Mary Peyton had 'crammed a fiver into the examiner's hand', when taking her driving test.
1972 - Members from Sly and the Family Stone were arrested after police found two pounds of marijuana in the group's motor home.
1974 - The US Justice Department ordered John Lennon out of the country by September 10th. The Immigration and Naturalization Service denied him an extension of his non-immigrant visa because of his guilty plea in England to a 1968 marijuana possession charge. The US Court of Appeal would overturn the deportation order in 1975 and Lennon was granted permanent resident status the following year.
1980 - Billy Joel's Glass Houses was at the No.1 position on the US album charts.
1988 - Died this day, Nico, singer, actress, model, Velvet Underground member, died of a brain haemorrhage having falling off her bicycle while on holiday in Ibiza. At the time she was working on an autobiography, to be called Moving Target.
1988 - Ike Turner was sentenced in Santa Monica, California to one year in jail for possessing and transporting cocaine. Police had stopped Turner, former husband of Tina Turner, in August 1987 for driving erratically and found about six grams of rock cocaine in his car.
1991 - Bobby Brown married Whitney Houston at her New Jersey estate.
2001 - Kiss, added another product to their ever-growing merchandising universe: the "Kiss Kasket." The coffin featured the faces of the four founding members of the band, the Kiss logo and the words "Kiss Forever." Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell was buried in one after he was shot and killed on-stage in Dec 2004.
2007 - Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler were ordered to pay their former chef compensation after losing a sexual discrimination case. Jane Martin, 41, was awarded £24,944 at an employment tribunal in Southampton, England after she was sacked by Miss Styler from the couple's estate in Wiltshire because she became pregnant
2007 - Paul Simon filed a law suit against Rhythm USA Inc. a Georgia-based subsidiary of a Japanese firm, claiming the company never had his permission to sell wall clocks that played ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’. The suit claimed that as one of the best known songs throughout the world, a proper licensing agreement would earn at least a $1 million licensing fee.
2008 - Rolling Stone guitarist Ronnie Wood was ‘seeking help’ with his battle with alcohol in a rehabilitation centre. The move followed tabloid speculation over the state of his 23-year marriage to former model Jo Wood. ‘Following Ronnie's continued battle with alcohol he has entered a period of rehab,’ his spokeswoman said.
2012 – The most played song on NZ radio the past week has been “Brokenhearted” by Karmin.
1941 - Born this day, Martha Reeves, in Detroit, Michigan, soul singer, 1964 US No.2 and 1969 UK No.4 single with The Vandellas Dancing In The Street, plus six other UK top singles.
1950 - Born this day, Glenn Hughes, singer, The Village People, 1978 US No.2 and 1979 UK No.1 single Y.M.C.A.. Died 4 March 2001. (He was the Biker).Hughes died on 4th March 2001.
1950 - Born this day, Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Records and the Virgin Empire and Virgin trains.
1953 - Truck driver Elvis Presley made his first ever recording when he paid $4 at the Memphis recording service singing two songs, My Happiness and That's When Your Heartaches Begin. (The songs were supposedly for his mother's birthday (which actually was in April) at Sun Records in Memphis (he is noticed by a secretary there and it eventually leads to a contract.)
1962 - Born this day, Jack Irons, rock musician, drums, Pearl Jam, 1992 UK No.15 single Jeremy, 1993 US No.1 album Vs..
1964 - The Four Seasons started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Rag Doll', the group's fourth No.1 and a No.2 hit on the UK chart. Co-writer Bob Gaudio said that he got the inspiration for the song from a young girl in tattered clothes that cleaned his car windows at a stop light.
1966 - Bobby Fuller leader of The Bobby Fuller Four was found dead in his car in Los Angeles aged 22. Fuller died mysteriously from gasoline asphyxiation, while parked outside his apartment. Police labelled it a suicide, but the possibility of foul play has always been mentioned. Had the 1966 US No.9 single 'I Fought The Law' written by Sonny Curtis of Buddy Holly's Crickets and covered by The Clash.
1970 - Radio 1 DJ Kenny Everett was sacked after he joked on air that the wife of the conservative transport minister Mary Peyton had 'crammed a fiver into the examiner's hand', when taking her driving test.
1972 - Members from Sly and the Family Stone were arrested after police found two pounds of marijuana in the group's motor home.
1974 - The US Justice Department ordered John Lennon out of the country by September 10th. The Immigration and Naturalization Service denied him an extension of his non-immigrant visa because of his guilty plea in England to a 1968 marijuana possession charge. The US Court of Appeal would overturn the deportation order in 1975 and Lennon was granted permanent resident status the following year.
1980 - Billy Joel's Glass Houses was at the No.1 position on the US album charts.
1988 - Died this day, Nico, singer, actress, model, Velvet Underground member, died of a brain haemorrhage having falling off her bicycle while on holiday in Ibiza. At the time she was working on an autobiography, to be called Moving Target.
1988 - Ike Turner was sentenced in Santa Monica, California to one year in jail for possessing and transporting cocaine. Police had stopped Turner, former husband of Tina Turner, in August 1987 for driving erratically and found about six grams of rock cocaine in his car.
1991 - Bobby Brown married Whitney Houston at her New Jersey estate.
2001 - Kiss, added another product to their ever-growing merchandising universe: the "Kiss Kasket." The coffin featured the faces of the four founding members of the band, the Kiss logo and the words "Kiss Forever." Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell was buried in one after he was shot and killed on-stage in Dec 2004.
2007 - Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler were ordered to pay their former chef compensation after losing a sexual discrimination case. Jane Martin, 41, was awarded £24,944 at an employment tribunal in Southampton, England after she was sacked by Miss Styler from the couple's estate in Wiltshire because she became pregnant
2007 - Paul Simon filed a law suit against Rhythm USA Inc. a Georgia-based subsidiary of a Japanese firm, claiming the company never had his permission to sell wall clocks that played ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’. The suit claimed that as one of the best known songs throughout the world, a proper licensing agreement would earn at least a $1 million licensing fee.
2008 - Rolling Stone guitarist Ronnie Wood was ‘seeking help’ with his battle with alcohol in a rehabilitation centre. The move followed tabloid speculation over the state of his 23-year marriage to former model Jo Wood. ‘Following Ronnie's continued battle with alcohol he has entered a period of rehab,’ his spokeswoman said.
2012 – The most played song on NZ radio the past week has been “Brokenhearted” by Karmin.